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New DARPA Director Brings AI Expertise
The Pentagon’s top research agency is extending its technology chops with the appointment of a new director with extensive industry experience in strategic sectors ranging from AI to underlying ...Full Article
U.S. Forms AI Brain Trust
Amid calls for a U.S. strategy for promoting AI development, the Trump administration is forming a senior-level panel to help coordinate government and industry research efforts. The Select Committee ...Full Article
Amazon’s Diversified Patent Portfolio Expanding
Amazon has long eschewed profits, preferring instead to plow capital expenditures into product innovation in sectors ranging from online retail to cloud computing. That aggressive strategy has made it ...Full Article
New Florida Chip R&D Center Targets Sensors
It's been a good month for advanced manufacturing research in the U.S. with an expansion of a government smart manufacturing effort followed this week by a new chip design ...Full Article
The Sweet Spot of Research & Development
Digital manufacturing covers a broad range of technologies and trying to predict their evolution and course can be an uncertain process. As a company, you can forgo the latest ...Full Article
Hyundai Challenges European Automakers at the Nürburgring
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/nurburgring.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="41" />Hyundai has announced a $7.4 million new vehicle test center to be built on Germany's automotive widowmaker: the Nürburgring. The 10,000-square-foot test ...Full Article
Make It in the UK: Brits Target the World
In the UK's heartland, Sheffield City Region is positioning itself to become the manufacturing hub of the world.Full Article
Innovation in the Digital Age
Not long ago the subject of innovation in manufacturing was considered a bit of an oxymoron to many leaders in business and government as they chose not to invest ...Full Article
The Invisible Innovators: What Is the Missing Middle? And Why Do We Need Them?
The manufacturing market is held together by a vitally-important yet often ignored segment, known as the "Missing Middle." The term refers to the roughly 300,000 manufacturers in the US ...Full Article
